Sex and the Scientist
Sex and the Scientist

Author: Jane Merrill

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 147662917X

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One of the preeminent natural philosophers of the Enlightenment, Benjamin Thompson started out as a farm boy with a practical turn of mind. His inventions include the Rumford fireplace, insulated clothing, the thermos, convection ovens, double boilers, double-paned glass and an improved sloop. He was knighted by King George III and became a Count of the Holy Roman Emperor. Thompson's popularity with women eclipsed his achievements, though. He was married twice and had affairs with many other prominent women, including the wife of Boston printer Isaiah Thomas and that of a doctor who would crew the first balloon to cross the English Channel. He even fathered a child by the court mistress of the Prince Elector and had affairs with several other German noblewomen. Drawing on Thompson's correspondence and diaries, this book examines his friendships and romantic relationships.

Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford

Author: Sanborn Conner Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781258841652

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Original version of biography of Thompson, rejected by publisher as too lengthy. Subsequently revised (later ms. version in Rumford 001755) and published in Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1979.

Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy
Scientist, Soldier, Statesman, Spy

Author: George Ingham Brown

Publisher: Alan Sutton Publishing

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 9780750926744

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FDR rated bount Rumford, along with his contemporaries Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the greatest mind America has yet produced.

The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments
The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments

Author: George Johnson

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2009-03-10

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 140003423X

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A dazzling, irresistible collection of the ten most groundbreaking and beautiful experiments in scientific history. With the attention to detail of a historian and the storytelling ability of a novelist, New York Times science writer George Johnson celebrates these groundbreaking experiments and re-creates a time when the world seemed filled with mysterious forces and scientists were in awe of light, electricity, and the human body. Here, we see Galileo staring down gravity, Newton breaking apart light, and Pavlov studying his now famous dogs. This is science in its most creative, hands-on form, when ingenuity of the mind is the most useful tool in the lab and the rewards of a well-considered experiment are on exquisite display.

Men of Physics Benjamin Thompson — Count Rumford
Men of Physics Benjamin Thompson — Count Rumford

Author: Sanborn C. Brown

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2016-09-20

Total Pages: 219

ISBN-13: 1483222225

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Men of Physics: Benjamin Thompson – Count Rumford: Count Rumford on the Nature of Heat covers the significant contributions of Count Rumford in the fields of physics. Count Rumford was born with the name Benjamin Thompson on March 23, 1753, in Woburn, Massachusetts. This book is composed of two parts encompassing 11 chapters, and begins with a presentation of Benjamin Thompson's biography and his interest in physics, particularly as an advocate of an ""anti-caloric"" theory of heat. The subsequent chapters are devoted to his many discoveries that profoundly affected the physical thought of his and succeeding generations. These discoveries include the propagation of heat in fluids, heat by friction, thermal expansion, heat weight, and water as a nonconductor of heat. The remaining chapters cover other aspects of Thompson's discoveries, such as heat propagation in various substances, heat at a mode of motion, and radiation. Physicists and researchers in the field and related fields will find this book invaluable.